Topic: UEFA Champions League 2023/24 Season - page 795. (Read 141787 times)

Newcastle are new to the champions league, and to me they have run out of steam to continue to maintain their shocking start to the competition. PSG who are older with more experience as a club in this competition will not let a repeat of the first leg happen again. Newcastle have played many difficult games this season, they cannot continue to maintain a good record from all of them. For the Newcastle team boss, he will be hoping that his players will come back after the International break with no injury concerns.

Because those were the words you used But it's ok if you clarify afterwards, thanks for doing it.

But believe me I am sometimes shaking my head when I read the comments here about how some teams "intentionally" lose games in one competition in order to be ready to focus on another competition and I am repeatedly saying that this is bullshit.

No team would do that and no coach would give the order to the players to play with less intensity unless they can afford it because they lead the table by many points. But otherwise every player will take the league seriously. Some here said that players would neglect the Champions League to play better in the league...  Of course, a player is living the dream playing in the Champions League but plays bad to have more energy for the domestic league. I don't know how people can come up with that.

Winning Parisians was the shocker but it wasn't about how far they can go but how well. They'll be knocked out alongside Ac Milan, these are the two clubs in that I feel like do not deserve progressing. AC Milan should not even qualify for the Europa League Competition, they'll be sent back to thrive in the Seria A once again.

PSG would defeat Newcastle at home comfortably. The first leg wasn't a lucky one, they earned it but I'd want to see that once again, it can't happen because they've dropped drive and momentum.
I've been expecting a double win at home for the current League 1 defending Champions in the next two games they'll play at home.

Newcastle unarguably produced their best performance of the season when they comfortably thrashed Paris Saint Germaine in their first leg meeting of the season but that I don't think is gonna happen again when they visit the French champions after the international break.
Paris Saint Germaine will be playing the game at home and would definitely want to prove a point to everyone that Newcastle's win in their first meeting of the season was just a lucky day for the Magpies and not because Newcastle are better than they are. It's gonna be a tough game but I expect PSG to win the game.

PSG will have an advantage because they will play at home. No team will easily beat them at home, specifically when they really want to win the match to secure their position for the next round. I'm very sure PSG will play all out, they won't let their opponent to steal points. Against Newcastle, I believe PSG squad is ready to show their best. PSG also has no serious problem about the injured players. Meanwhile Newcastle has a very serious problem about it, there are too many main players injured now. It must bring bit impacts on the performance of Newcastle. So, I think it is very small chance for Newcastle to steal points.

Every team definitely has a decline in performance and this is based on several things such as player injuries and declining player performance. But what happened in Manchester City, it seems like they are still quite strong and have never lost in the Champions League so their quality so far is still quite strong in the Champions League. In fact, Kevin de Bruyne absence did not have a big impact on them because Manchester City performed well in the 4 matches they played. However, to win the UCL trophy again this season, of course Manchester City still has a chance and if Kevin rejoins the team later. Their strength will be stronger and ready to face big teams from other leagues if they meet each other in the round of 16.

For Erling Haaland, of course he will try his best to make a contribution through the goals he scores in every match. He is still quite dangerous on Manchester City front line this season where Erling Haaland has contributed 4 goals in 4 matches in the Champions League. I think Pep Guardiola still has a fairly strong squad even though several of their players left in the last summer transfer window. From other teams, it is possible that Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich and Inter Milan will again try to thwart Manchester City mission in winning the title this season.

You misunderstood me. Of course I don't mean that they did it intentionally. I mean they lost some points in the La Liga matches while they were doing amazing things in the Champions League. Why would they do this intentionally? Why would I mean such thing man? 

Anyway I don't know how much longer they can go on in the Champions League. But remembering what Villarreal did a couple of seasons ago here I wonder whether we would see a similar success by Real Sociedad as well. 

In the last season when Newcastle won the Champions League ticket in the Premier League for the first time, I was expecting to see the rich owners they give them more money but they didn't do that and it seems Newcastle didn't have good potential for the Champions League while they are in the same group with the stronger teams like PSG and Dortmund, this can make the situation harder for them and I think this team can't even have a chance to pass this stage in the group F.
 

The next game against Dortmund is what's important. If they win that one, they have the upper hand in the group for several reasons. Nobody knows yet how the game between PSG and Newcastle will end although I expect Newcastle to lose. If AC Milan wins against Dortmund at home, that puts them 1 point ahead of Dortmund and they would have also won the head to head comparison if they end up with the same number of points and this is not impossible. If AC Milan loses the last game and Dortmund ties or loses the last game, AC Milan would still make it into the final round. There is nothing lost as of now.

If it is consistency in terms performance especially in England, then you should give it to the pep guardiola side. It was only Manchester United that I can remember in recent times and that was even during the time of sir Alex Ferguson, that i saw an English team that has such dominance and consistency in European football.

The aspect of Manchester City deserving another title is it in the Champions League, Premier League, or just both? I don't think that will be possible for Manchester City to accomplish this season, because of their current performance. A single player like Haaland can win the two mentioned leagues trophies alone, he needs the coordination of other players to make it come to fulfillment. Ever since Manchester City sold some of their key players and Kelvin Bruyne had injuries, their performance seems not to be as formidable as before. That would cause them to lose their good performance and the zeal to retain the Premier League and Champions League title again this season.

Apparently, we have a slight difference in this point of view. After De Brunye was injured, Pep played more intensely with Alvarez as the main starter. As for Haaland, he is a goalscoring machine for City. Well, because of De Brunye's injury, Pep is currently more inclined to rotate and experiment with what he wants in almost every match. whether it's the system, player rotation, and often making changes to strategy in one match. Of all the players available, it is certain that Pep Guardiola always plays Haaland and Alvarez.

However, the case is different with Jack Grealish. I can't guess what Pep really wants. However, in fact, Grealish is rarely played in domestic competitions. Apart from that, Pep does not hesitate to try experimenting with his players. for example, it is not uncommon to see Rico Lewis playing in the midfielder position. or, Silva is shifted to another position. Nevertheless, City continued to play consistently and wiped out their 4 matches with a win in this group phase.

Talking about Real Madrid, there is unpleasant news for Real Madrid supporters. Several of their core players were injured, such as Vini Jr, Camavingga and several other players. Even though Ancelotti has the option of a substitute, changes in performance could have an impact on the decline. Fortunately, Real Madrid is in a safe position in the group phase and still has the potential to become group winners to ensure they qualify for the round of 16.

For Manchester City, they've got players that are key to them, although the team are good but there are some leakages in the team RN as a result of De Bruyne and Gundogan's absence, yes they still have an upper head in the contest but the team would best be in their top form when these two are present. Not loosing hope in them, they can still do the City magic.

For Madrid, Vinicius' injury is going to be responsible for his absence in subsequent games for a while, hoping that he'd be back on the pitch soon, Madrid has to find a replacement for him, one who's able to some extent match his capacity of else the leakage will be felt more, both Madrid and City are teams without an issue of having good replacements for an absent player, they have adequate skill squad who are young and vibrant and eager to deliver.

I think he lost his chances of making the top 3 as early as the last match. Galatsaray is obviously playing much better, let alone Bayern. Hence the chances of even qualifying for the Europa League are fading away. I think they need to get their team in order first, and then try for the Eurocups.

I've never seen a team as consistent and outstanding like Manchester City in the English Premier League over the past seasons, they have contineu to dominate and win trophies. I've no doubt that Manchester City will dugged for important trophies this season, the signs are already there, what matters currently is the time calculated for them. Pep Guardiola is a genius and managers like him tend to fit in any managerial position they found themselves. He has a good chemistry going on with his players and they will definitely provide him with excellent results that he's keen on making.

Arsenal is performing well in the league and the Champions League, but it will be difficult to compete with Manchester, Bayern Munich, and Real Madrid because these three clubs are performing well and have some experienced players in their squads. After the group stage is completed, you will know who is good because from what I'm seeing, I don't think Arsenal will advance past the round of 16 in the Champions League competition because I didn't see any player in the club with Champions League experience. because they are all young players who can't compete with the big clubs in the competition, but let's see how Arteta performs if he can play well in the next round of the Champions League and win the tittle if he can defeat Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the competition, I will say they will win the tittle but it won't be an easy task for them.


He will be very difficult for Manchester United to qualify because they have lost their chances to qualify to the next round because even if they defeat Galatasaray Bayern Munich will not do them any favors and they are playing at Bayern Munich's home expect Tuchel to fuckup and I don't think he will make any mistakes because it has been a long time since Bayern Munich has lost in the group stage of the Champions League and they will continue to keep the record and now that Harry Kane is in the club and is just scoring goals, and I am confident he will score goals against Manchester United.

And now that Galatasaray are in good form in their league, I don't think it will be easy for Manchester United to defeat Galatasaray because they will put in the effort to win the game and qualify for the competition with Bayern Munich because if they draw or win against Manchester United, they will have already qualified because they will defeat Copenhagen.

Even though they lost many player, the fact is that Manchester City performance is still very strong and Pep Guardiola still believes that his club will be able to win highest title in champions league even though there a decline in performance a several player, but we will see that manchester City chances of being able to qualify for the final round are very large as long as his flagship player Haaland has no problems I am sure Manchester city still deserves another trophy.

Is it just me or is the number of injuries during this break abnormal? Real lost two players at once, some clubs have also already suffered and there are still enough games ahead for the list of injured to be replenished. I would like to know what this is connected with - for example, last season had a tighter schedule of games due to the winter World Cup, but I don’t remember such an epidemic of injuries.

Every club must have key platers that the tean depends on and when those players are not present in any of their matches, it will be noticed because the tram performance will drop. Gundogan and De Bruyne contributed a lot to Manchester City success last season and since Manchester City is lacking these two players, it will affect their performance in reaching the finals.

Real Madrid still have hope that Vini will be back to his top form after some time, we could see this in their previous match in their domestic league where these two players Vini and Rodrigo scored tow goals each. Bellingham is doing great and I don't think that he will not be able to bring out his best performance as he has already shown the world that he is having a wonderful time in Real Madrid with the way he performs his dying minutes magic goals. Kross is doing well only if he has injury that it will be a problem for Real Madrid. From the look of things, I think that Real Madrid has a better chance of winning the league than Manchester City.

Honestly for me Arsenal doesn't have a team ready to win the Champions League, it's true that they play well but honestly they don't seem equipped enough to win, to start with that Arsenal isn't yet sure of going through and there's still 2 to go quite important matches, so the estimates given by the bookmakers are a bit random in my opinion, but I could also be wrong